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    <h1>What is the Document Object Model?</h1>
    <p>The <abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C </abbr>defines the<abbr title="Document Object Model"> DOM</abbr> as: </p>
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        <p>A plateform and language-neutral interface that will allow programs and script to dynamically access and update the content, structure and style of document.</p>
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    <p>It is an <abbr title="Application Programming Interface">API</abbr> that can be used to navigate <abbr title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</abbr> and <abbr title="eXtensible Markup Language">XML</abbr> documents.
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